Joanna Reecks

Joanna Reecks (I'm not sure how her last name is spelled because it has been quite a while since I played this charachter.) was the leader of a group of scientists. They were trying to discover a cure for a sickness that was killing people on the surface of the planet. The group had come from a spaceship because years before the events of the larp, Earth was found to be uninhabitable and people fleed to space. However, this group of scientists was sent back to Earth to research the sickness which started to kill "subhumans" (aka the ones still living on Earth). The group had to escape a mutant invasion to a small station which hadn't been senting a signal back to space in quite a while.

Joanna Reecks - pencil, coloured pencil, and ink

I spent the whole game in one room just leading the research and standing over a operating table on which my group studied three two subhumans and one mutant. About half of the game I was wearing a gas mask because the "subhumans" were so dirty, sick, and dangerous. Of course during the game there came an inspector to check the station because of the lack of signal it was supposed to send back to space. Our group wasn't too happy about this because they had just arrived there and had to work in this poor laboratory. In the end, we were forced to flee that station too because of another invasion. At least me and one of my colleagues managed to escape with the inspector and his assistant.

A little detail I came up with in the beginning of the game was that I wanted to speak with a russian accent. I got some compliments because of it. I have always been fascinated by accents and I simply loved speaking with a different accent, even though it was challenging. Speaking of little details, the glasses I wore in the game were quite a nice touch to the charachter if I may say so. Naturally I had a slight problem with them because I don't need glasses and I had bought these from a second hand store which meant that when I put them on my eyesight was very poor indeed. Nevertheless I heard after the game I was quite convincing as a scientist even though I couldn't see a thing.

I used ink, pencil, and coloured pencils in this picture. I was very frustrated with the hand holding the glasses. I used my own hand as a model but still I had to redraw it several times. However, it is now finished and I won't give a second thought for it. Although I could do a few things to improve it...